CONTEXTUAL SUBDIVISION. The diagrams below display the method of subdivision employed in the new town. Building on top of the older disruptions on the grid, the new cuts took the path of least possible resistance. There are four overlapping levels of subdivision creating one, three, seven and twenty one sections or districts within the new ward. The ambition is not to locate the ideal subdivision among these four, but to come up with a plan where all four levels of subdivision would be simultaneously present.
MAXIMIZING SURFACE. At a practical level respecting preexisting grid disruptions meant that the subdivisions were made along the lines of large scale infrastructure — rail lines, widened streets, freeways — that disrupted the grid continuity. The jagged edges seen in the new subdivisions are the primary legacy of those old disruptions that were taken up in the new subdivisions as distinct opportunities. Like the built-in complexity of a jigsaw, these jagged pieces of the ward maximized the length of the interface or seem between any two given subdivision. In the bottom row of diagrams the number of surfaces produced by each subdivision are listed.
PREEMPTIVE CLOSURE. In the top row of diagrams the number of street closures required for each respective subdivision are listed. It was not necessary or desirable to close every district off from the next; quite the contrary.
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